Hollywood is internationally recognized as the movie capital of the world, but it’s trounced by India regarding numbers of films produced a year. Hollywood releases around 500 movies a year, while Bollywood — as the Indian movie capital Mumbai is often called — cranks out more than 1,500 films annually.

China remains a battleground country among investors. Not a day passes without articles appearing in the Western media about ghost towns, corruption, pollution, bad treatment of immigrant workers, empty trains and bad roads. Bears on China argue that it’s a massive bubble getting bigger by the day. Bullish investors contend that the country is [...]

A headline story since 2013 began has been the policy of new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to target an inflation rate of 2 percent and devalue the yen to make Japan more competitive. Japan has been in a deflationary cycle for two decades and its ratio of debt to gross domestic product had [...]

Investors’ experience in many European telecommunications stocks over the last few years has been nothing short of disaster. Dutch telecom operator KPN, for example, has seen its stock price fall from 14 euros per share to 4 euros per share in the last 5 years. The dividend also has been cut on various occasions. [...]

The consumption revolution in emerging markets is happening right as we speak. Tens of thousands of people are getting out of poverty and are starting to consume everyday household goods. In Latin America’s largest country, Brazil, the policies of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have lifted between 40 million and 50 million [...]